In addition, Guerra made his own Pekaresque comic of his meeting with the comic artist. Â Drawn by Camilo SÃ¡nchez, Â¨Una charla con Harvey Pekar,Â¨ provides an interesting glimpse of Pekar lecturing at Brown University, not long before his death. Â It also works as an artistic homage to the late master of autobiography.

5 Responses to “Colombian Homages to Harvey Pekar”

Jesse,
Harvey Pekar was very influential to many Colombian comics creators and his death was heart felt. I managed to get a two page-spread article in the Sunday edition of one of the two biggest national newspapers when he passed away. Also, the Larva homage was produced with great effort and joy. I was happy to be part of it along side artists like Truchafrita, Joni b, Luto, Inu, Ernan Cirianni (Argentina), David Galliquio (Peru), among others. It was released in November as part of EntreviÃ±etas 2010, the first (alternative) comics festival in Colombia held in the city of Armenia.

Thank you for noticing and sharing the information,
Pablo Guerra

ps. Just to be clear, Camilo SÃ¡nchez is the illustrator and I, Pablo, did the script for “Un charla con Harvey Pekar”.
pps. Other great Colombian comic artists are Andrezzinho, Power Paola, Federico Neira and John Joven.

Likewise, the special issue of “Larva” magazine in homage to Harvey Pekar includes, besides the Latinamerican authors listed by Pablo, some short interviews with Ed Piskor, Dean Haspiel and Tara Seibel and, also, a comic of Mrs. Seibel, her last collaboration with the “master of autobiography”.

I did read the piece in El Espectador, but I think most readers would expect an obit. I think whatÂ´s interesting here is that in both of the comics mentioned the reader can actually see the influence. Also I really liked Â¨Una charla con Havery PekarÂ¨ and wanted to write about it.

I am familiar with many of the comic artists you mention and hopefully will have time to cover their most recent work here in this column.